Tonality
Tonality is a musical system that arranges pitches or chords to induce a hierarchy of perceived relations, stabilities, and attractions. The pitch or triadic chord with the greatest stability is called the tonic. The most common use of the term ..."is to designate the arrangement of musical phenomena around a referential tonic in European music from about 1600 to about 1910" (Hyer 2001). Modern classical music may practice or avoid any sort of tonality—but harmony in popular music remains tonal in some sense, and harmony in jazz music includes many, if not all, tonal characteristics, while having different properties from common-practice classical music.
"All harmonic idioms in popular music are tonal, and none is without function" (Tagg 2003, 534).
Tonality is an organized system of tones (e.g., the tones of a major or minor scale) in which one tone (the tonic) becomes the central point for the remaining tones. In tonality, the tonic (tonal center) is the tone of complete relaxation, the target toward which other tones lead (Benward & Saker 2003, 36).
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LOCOMOTION
by: Danielle WhiteEverybody's doin a brand new dance now
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I know you'll get to like it if you give it a chance now
Come on baby, do the locomotion...
My little baby sister can do it with ease
It's easier than learnin your ABC's
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You gotta swing your hips now
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A chuga-chuga motion like a railway train
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Do it nice and easy so you dont lose control
A little bit of rhythm and a lot of soul
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Do the locomotion...
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Move around the floor in a locomotion
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Do it holding hands like you got the notion
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There's never been a dance thats so easy to do
It even makes you happy when youre feeling blue
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You've gotta swing your hips now
Come on baby, jump up, jump back
Well i think youve got the nack
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Everybodys doin the brand new dance now
Come on baby, do the locomotion
I know you'll get to like it if you give it a chance now
Come on baby, do the locomotion...
Do it nice and easy now dont loose control
A little bit of rhythm and a lotta soul
So come on, come on, do the locomotion
Come on, come on, do the locomotion
Come on, come on, do the locomotion with me
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